American Legion Auxiliary to Meet at McIntire Home
Rolfe notes say the American Legion Auxiliary will meet Monday April 12 at the W L McIntire home. The Sorosis Club postponed its March 18 meeting to April 1 at Mrs B A Petersons home. Social updates include farewells for local families and recent club activities with sewing and a birthday prize awarded.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Auxil- Lucy
Fonor
C. E. Calligan
Bar Kubourn
Legion Hall
Abe DeVaul
Merle McAninch
A. A. Richmond
Frances M. Perigal
Des Moines
C. B. Chapman
Virginia DeViul
Nettie
C. E. Carligan
Earl .Kilbourn
Wm. Quigley
Day
W. L. McIntire
Fannie McIntire
Geo. Smith Sr
Martin Christensen
City pot luck dinner invitation posted
A notice invites residents to attend a pot-luck dinner on Monday March 22 at 6 30 p m. The committee will provide meat coffee cream sugar and rolls with ten baskets ready to assist guest care.
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For Sale Brooder House and Feed Materials
For sale by Hall Roberts' Son of Postville Iowa two items Roy Simonson 51 21 Alfalfa at 7.50 per bushel 99 percent Medium Clover at 15 60 per bushel. Postal card today for samples and illustrated circular with purity and germination tests. 50 41.
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Hall Roberts’ Son
Postville
Iowa
Rolfe Wins In Subdistrict Declam Contest
Wednesday evening last week Rolfe high school hosted the subdistrict declamatory contest with Manson Callender Humboldt Pomeroy Moorland and Rolfe as participants. Judges from Pocahontas and Bode selected the winners in oratorical dramatic and humorous divisions.
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Rolfe High School
Manson
Callender
Humboldt
Pomeroy
Moorland
Rolfe
Janice Williams
Pocahontas
Bode
Glen Swartzendruber
John Flaherty
Janice Wiegman
Home Project Meeting Names Menu and Topics Discussed
The third lesson follow-up for a nutrition home project was held at John Lawman home on Friday March 12 led by Mrs. Lawman and Mrs. Sam Nicoson with 12 ladies present. They prepared a luncheon of rolled flank steak vegetables corn muffins butter jelly canned pears and peaches. Mrs. Art Vaughn reported on the pasture training school in Spencer. The meeting also covered music appreciation selections and plans for the next gathering at Chet Carpenter home on Thursday March 25.
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John Lawman
Lawman
Sam Nicoson
Art Vaughn
Pasture
Spencer
Chet Carpenter
Cancer Prevention Fund Appeal Drives Local Support
Next week marks cancer prevention week and residents are invited to donate to the American Cancer Society through local representative Mrs. Geo Shors. The message urges community backing for the prevention fund via the local contact.
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American Society For the Control of Cancer
Geo. Shors
Obituary of Mrs. Bessie M. Taylor of Rolfe Iowa
Mrs. Bessie M. Taylor died at her Rolfe home on March 6 1987 from a cerebral hemorrhage after illness. Born Bessie Mooney in Scotland on June 20 1861 she immigrated to the United States at age nine. She married William C. Taylor in Chicago in 1887 and moved to Rolfe where he died in 1896. Survived by five children, three grandchildren and relatives, she was a devout Catholic known for faith and family devotion. Funeral at St Margaret's Rolfe with requiem high mass. interment in Catholic cemetery.
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Bessie M. Taylor
Rolfe
Bessie M. Mooney
Scotland
Peter Mooney
United States
Chicago
William C. Taylor
Chicopee Falls
Mass
George
Ethel Cronk
Waterloo
William
Sioux Falls
S. D
Bessie
Elia Meisenbach
Billy Taylor
Mary
Josephine Meisenbach
St. Margaret’s Church
D. A. Tewell
Floyd McCain
Pomeroy
John
Leo
Thomas
Walter
Clement Crahan
Oeiwein
Wallace Taylor
W. S. Taylor
Billy
Ralph E. Cronk
Mayme Learch
E. Cusack
Oelwein
Margaret Crahan
Thomas Crahan
Emmett Crahan
West Bend
Sade Crahan
Margie Crahan
Sadie Crahan
Rita Condon
Margaret Condon
Mangon
Theresa Meisenbach
Leonora Fargo
C. G. Jolliffe
Humboldt
J. J. Fitzgerald
Thomas Leahy Jr
Gilmore
Myr
Byrne Leahy
Carroll
J. H. Pollock
US pig crop rises despite western crop drop
The United States fall pig crop grew about six percent from 1985 even as western corn belt states, including Iowa, saw a decline. Swine may be poisoned by excess salt, and salt poisoning reports have been issued by the U S Department of Agriculture. Interstate sale of mixed domestic and imported alfalfa or red clover seed violates the federal seed act despite clear labeling.
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United States
Towa
United States Department of Agriculture
Methodist Church Plans Lent and Easter Services
Rev Clarence W Tompkins leads a week of Epworth League events and Lent services at four locations with a pageant The Crucifixion and daily themes I Am the Way I Am the Truth I Am the Life ahead of a Friday union service and Easter observances for the congregation.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Clarence W. Tompkins
Epworth League
Jesus
Africa
Christ
R. C. Grant
J. C. Brogotti
L. D. Smith
Thomas Diggs
God
Promotion Club approves Good Friday business closures in Rolfe
Rolfe business houses will close from 1 to 4 PM on Good Friday after a Promotion club meeting. Rev J O Wangberg noted March 26 union services at M E church from 2 to 8:30 PM, and the closure was approved. Trade extension shows $7.02 on hand and Rev Clarence Tompkins joins to share trade plans.
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Rolfe
Promotion Club
J. O. Wangberg
M. E
Clarence Tompkins
Spencer
Tompkins
New Trade Extension Committee
Council Bluffs
Frank Grandjenet
Ed Boles
Red Cross
G. B. Palmer
Supt
M. D. Anderson
Misses Alletta
Ivyl Grant
Arthur Ader
Fort Dodge
Eggs production treads above average in December
The United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports egg production stayed just above the December average despite elevated feed costs, indicating steadier output for the sector.
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United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Rolfe Cage Team Advances To State Tournament
The Rolfe cage squad travels to the state tournament after taking a 46 to 25 lead at the end of the period, with a box score note continuing from page one. The report also references a preliminary tax survey of farm real estate taxes in 38 states for 1986.
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Rolfe Cage
Basketball Team Escorts Home After Weekend Game
The report notes 54 auto loads of Rolfe talent traveled to Council Bluffs on Sunday to bring the basketball team home. Albert Rudolfson earned a nickname Budy later heard as Beauty at the district tournament. Harlan Miller’s column jokes that a new game ring rises with each Northwest Iowa birth, while a department store in the East sells automobiles.
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Ida Grove
Rolfe
Rudolfson
Cornwell
F Rickard
Eee Kennedy
Marine
Hansen
Nne Ferden
Mere Smith
Boles
Next Iverson
Chicago Herald
Zimmer
Jamier. Miller
Rasmussen
Hanson
iBaker
F Young
Deal
Flater
Sloan
Ferden
Pinta
Rickard
Smith
Kennedy
Godsey
Mee
Johnson
Hilts
Heinle
Humansberger
Brenden
Calhoun
Sete
Dean
O Woods
Worell
Sloan Seep Ree
Council Bluffs
Joan Somber Kennedy
Ale Marine
Lee
Halpin
Council: Bluffs
Albert
Budy Long U
Rudolfsonl
Harlan Miller
Iowa
Harlan
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Stromberg
B. W
Stromberg Hatchery
Seaman
C. Douglas
Ai. Wiegman
Mary Markin
D. G. Weiland
E. Grant
Simonson
Clara Everson
Miller Building
Brooder House
Boytharzee and
Spader
Roy Simonson
N. J. Bixler
Law Jones Office Building
Alice Burns
Br. W. Webb
Clothes
Rolfe, Iowa
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Erred Friar
Skelton
Radtke
Wright
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